COMENIUS -RACONTE-MOI UN BIJOU- 2010-2012
The project "Raconte-moi un bijou!" gathered for 2 years groups from 10 partner schools in Europe through their common professional field (bijouterie-jewelry) and their desire to engage in a maximum way their students in a project-based pedagogy. The partnership has enabled students to discover their own regional professional heritage in which the history of profession and craft traditions are combined, and to transmit this learning to their European partners.
The project "Raconte-moi un bijou!" was consolidated thanks to the intervention of artisans and jewelers designers, academics and former students of schools, businesses and museums of popular art that have significantly contributed to the educational objectives by showing with each school partner of their professional experiences and by accepting to transmit specific skills and techniques.
The project "Raconte-moi un bijou!" is built collectively among the 9 teams engaged in the partnership, and gradually according to the 4 main phases of the work schedule: 1) the discovery and understanding of craft techniques used in each own country and in the country of a partner, 2) the creation of contemporary jewellery by reinvesting these techniques, 3) the revision and dissemination of these experiences through newspapers of the high schools, travel books, websites, 4) the collective exhibitions of created jewellery showing all over Europe
PARTNERS SCHOOL
1. LYCEE PROF.JEAN GUEHENNO FRANCE- ST-AMAND MONDROND
2. ESCOLA SECUNDARIA ARTISTICA ANTONIO ARROIO PORTUGAL- LISBOA
3. ESCOLA SECUNDARIA ARTISTICA SOARES DOS REIS PORTOGAL-PORTO
4. STREDNI UMELECKOPRUMYSLOVA SKOLA REPUBLIQUE TCHEQUE-TURNOV
5. STEDELIJK INSTITUUT VOOR HANDEL EN AMBACHTEN BELGIUM-ANTWERP
6. INSTITUT DES ARTES, TECHNIQUES ET ARTISANATS BELGIUM-NAMUR
7. ESCUELA ARTE N 3 SPAIN-MADRIT
8. DIEK-VOLOS GREECE-VOLOS
9. IST.ISTR.SUP. B. CELLINI
10. LIEPAJAS MAKSLAS VIDUSSKOLA LATVIA- LIEPAJA
- Each partner was responsible for its own actions and educational initiatives in the context of the partnership. The project meetings, the meetings with the coordinating partner (FR) and the use of new technologies have facilitated the overall coordination, the harmonization of the initiatives and the balance of the actions. The initiatives of each partner were considered as fundamental in this project that relies on the one hand on the own resources (craft techniques) in each regional heritage, and on the other hand on the transmission of these resources towards the other project partners (exhibitions, hosting of delegations, mobility, transcription of experiments)
- Each partner have had as a mission to create annually one collection of unique and modern jewellery made by team of the high school according to the research process, the learning and the realisation integral in the defined rules of the partnership. The enrichment of the creativity during the 2 years of the project was established firstly thanks to the technical staff hired by each school during the conferences or the technical workshops (craftsmen, artists, designers, companies, museums) and on the other hand thanks to the relevance of the findings and the learning during the mobility and the receptions of the delegations in schools.
TARGETS
- Discovery and study of cultural, artistic and heritage identities of the countries of the partner schools
- Respect of the cultural identities of each and mutual enrichment with multiple European heritages
- Initiation and training in craft techniques (jewellery) related to the skills of the partner schools
- Strengthening of the motivation for the trainees of the mother language into the project partnership
- Promotion of the joint work by the development of the project (exhibition, press, web)
- Common training and comparison methods, between schools, of manufacturing methods and techniques (art of jewellery)
- Discovery and inspiration of plastic and artistic identities of the partner schools
- Spreading of the creativity and innovation skills by incorporating new techniques and specific materials
- Use of languages of communication (languages of the project) other than the mother tongue
- European citizenship and highly motivation of the students to participate in other European actions
MOBILITY
A large number of transnational mobility has enabled the preparation, the implementation and the evaluation of all educational activities. The coordinating partner (FR) opened the first 2 exhibitions in its town in January 2011 and in January 2012 and organized there, within this framework, project meetings where many partners participated (Befr, BEnl, ES, IT, GR, PILT, PTpo).
Four (4) general meetings of coordination regrouped the totality of all partners (10) and helped to define in common the agendas (mobility, exhibitions, openings), the objectives to follow, the teaching methods, and to collectively develop the evaluation process of the project:
1. December 2010: project meeting in Madrid (ES)
2. April 2011: A group of 8 people (The Director of DIEK, two professors and five students) visited the School SIHA of Antwerp. Apart from visits to museums, shows and attractions, a two-day seminar at the Museum of Antwerp silversmith, on a traditional technique of Belgium (silversmithing). Tis knowledge gained by the students there will combine with our traditional technique (filigree) to build a new jewelry line, until December 2011, which will take part in the next European roadshow of COMENIOUS.
3. May 2011: project meeting in Porto. A teacher and two students visited the school Artistica Soares Dos Rei s. Seminars in jewellery techniques took place.
4. November 2011: Project meeting in Lisbon
5. January 2012: A teacher and seven students visited France in Saint-Amand Mondrond the school LYCEE PROF. JEAN GUEHENNO. They attended the opening of the Second European Exhibition of COMENIOUS, and attended seminars and lectures by professionals in the field of jewelry.
6. May 2012: project meeting in Porto. A teacher and two students visited the school Artistica Soares Dos Reis..
Volos Municipal DIEK hosts the 2nd European COMENIUS Jewellery Exhibition (see photo gallery)
2nd European Jewellery Exhibition COMENIUS, titled "Raconte-moi un bijou", with students work of ten European schools host DIEK Vocational Training Institute of Volos, from 30th of March to 14th of April 2012. The official opennings of the exhibition took place on Saturday, April 7th at 8:00 pm at the Brickworks Museum N. & S. Tsalapatas while lectures were given by Maria Gavrilou am Curator of the Museum Lalaounis Jewelry on "Jewelry - Modern Creations or new concerns .The opening of the exhibition was attended by the delegation of 4 professors from the School of Jewellery and Diamond Cutting SIHA of Antwerp.
Participating Schools: Belgium: SIHA - Anvers, IATA - Namur / France: L.P.J.G. - Saint - Amand Mondrond / Greece: DIEK - Volos / Spain: Escuela De Arte 3 - Madrit / Italy: ISA Cellini - Valenza / Latvia: L.M.V. - Liepaja / Portugal: E.S.A.A. - Lisbon, E.S.S.R. - Porto / Czech Republic: SUPS - Turnov. DIEK of Volos participate in this COMENIUS program for the period 2010 to 2012. The program aims, through transnational mobility of students and professors to develop the professional skills of students and to broaden cultural horizons, knowing the culture and lifestyle of its European partners. According to the rationale of the program each school is invited to implement a traditional technique of the country, in a jewel that will be built with a technique that students learned during their visit to another school. So far they have made 21 trips for students and teachers in schools jewelry Madrid, Antwerp, Porto and St. Amand Mondrot in France.
